Cancer Statistics

A snapshot of cancer trends in the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Regional Cancer Program

Quick Statistics: 2010

	Total Population	Percentage of population over 50	Projected new cancer cases
Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant:	1,404,009	36%	8,103
Ontario:	13,220,444	33%	67,984

Source: Ministry of Finance, Cancer Care Ontario
Report Date: March, 2011

Cancer control performance

The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Regional Cancer Program continues to see improvements in its progress against cancer. According to the Cancer System Quality Index, which monitors the performance of the cancer system in Ontario based on 36 quality measures, Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant has achieved results that are better than the provincial average in key areas such as computerized drug ordering and resolving abnormal breast cancer screens within target.

Incidence and Survival

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Legend

Using the most recent data year, the circles represent how the LHIN is performing compared to the Ontario average. The colours represent how well the indicator is performing against the comparison data shown.

Good

Fair

No change

	Performance is worse compared to the previously reported data.
	There is no substantial change compared to the previously reported data.
	Performance is better compared to the previously reported data.
	Not previously reported.

Calculating At a Glance

In determining whether an indicator was the same or different from the Ontario Average or whether an indicator was the same or different from the Comparison Data, we took the following approach:

Values were considered essentially "the same" if:

There was no statistically significant difference between them; OR
Where there was no significance information calculated, then if there were overlapping confidence intervals; OR
Where there were no confidence intervals calculated, then if the percent values were less than or equal to 2 percentage points of each other. For absolute values, we calculated the percentage difference between the values. Less than or equal to a 2% change or difference was considered the same.

CONTEXT	Prior Data	Most Recent Data
Cancer Incidence Rates		Estimated 2011	Total for Ontario
Estimated number of new cancer cases		8280	69883
		Estimated 2009-2011	Ontario Average
Estimated incidence age-standardized rates for breast cancer		102.5	100.6
Estimated incidence age-standardized rates for prostate cancer		154.0	147.5
Estimated incidence age-standardized rates for colorectal cancer		49.2	48
Estimated incidence age-standardized rates for lung cancer		52.6	48.2
Estimated incidence age-standardized rates for cervical cancer		8.5	7.2
Estimated incidence age-standardized rates for corpus uterus cancer		20.3	20
Estimated incidence age-standardized rates for ovarian cancer		16.0	14.7
Cancer Survival	1993 to 1997	2003 to 2007	Ontario Average
Age standardized 5-year relative survival for breast cancer	82.2%	85.2%	87.4%
Age standardized 5-year relative survival for prostate cancer	87.4%	95.7%	96.9%
Age standardized 5-year relative survival for colorectal cancer	52.9%	63.0%	64.3%
Age standardized 5-year relative survival for lung cancer	15.3%	16.5%	17.9%

Source: Cancer System Quality Index, 2011